Nippon Ichi

The Witch and the Hundred Knight has two short videos available for you to watch, one of which is only around 30 seconds long. The first is called Witch Donimation and the second – the really short one – is Tochka Dekoimo+Bomb. Both are posted below courtesy of RPGfan. The Nippon Ichi title releases on […]

Disgaea D2 has received another batch of gameplay screens from Nippon Ichi. The images show of more colourful battles, painful-looking training exercises, zombie punching, a live rock concert and more.

Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories will be released through PSN as a PS2 Classic later this month, NIS America has announced. Released originally on PS2 back in 2006, the turn-based strategy-RPG will run you $9.99 when it releases on January 22. Thanks, Gematsu.

Nippon Ichi is gearing up for its 20th anniversary celebrations, and will be launching several games to tie in with the festivities. One of them is hoped to be The Witch and Hundred Soldiers, a project that was due to release on PS3 in June. It silently disappeared off the map, but the publisher has […]

This year marks Nippon Ichi’s 20th anniversary, and the firm is teasing an untitled game with a piece of Noizi Ito artwork which was the cover of Dengeki PlayStation. More titles are in the works as well. It also revealed the anniversary logo which will adorn all of the anniversary celebrations planned for the rest […]

The series formerly known as Holy Invasion of Privacy, Badman! (later retitled as What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord? and No Heroes Allowed!) may well be on its way to NGP, if we can believe a tweet from, uh, one of the game’s primary characters.

Over at IGN. Nippon Ichi’s RPG looks ok, we think, although not as many pixels and polygons that we’ve come to expect from current gen titles. We suppose we’ll have to wait until 2009 to find out how it really looks. By Mike Bowden

Square Enix has announced that the PS3 exclusive, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice will be released in PAL territories in 2009. From the release: Welcome to the twisted world of the Nether Institute, Evil Academy where good is bad and bad is good. In this school a good student is somebody that excels in delinquent […]

After the break. It’s amazing. Characters in the Japanese SRPG shout things like, “This is love! And justice!” The graphics looks the same as Afternoon of Darkness, we swear. We so want it. Watch: it’s in English. Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice is out on August 26 in the US. Thanks, PS3F.

Prinnies, dood. The DS version of Nippon Ichi’s SRPG Disgaea can be seen in motion on GamersHell, adding stylus play, a grid map on the top screen and multiplayer to the PSP outing, Afternoon of Darkness. Take a look.

IGN’s just posted a ton of new stuff on Nippon Ichi PS3 SRPG Disgaea 3, including new shots, a translated interview and a trailer you can see after the break. The interview begins with this gem of a quote from lead designer Masahiro Yamamoto, so you know all’s well: “I planned to make the story […]

According to this Siliconera piece, Nippon Ichi’s releasing a Japanese update for Disgaea 3 which includes ten super-powerful playable characters. You get them to join your group by having Mao at a certain level when you beat the game. You can see the available characters – or nine of them, at least – here. The […]

Here The DS version of Nippon Ichi’s SRPG’s looking all good and now confirmed for a June 26 release in Japan. No word yet on whether or not we’re going to see it in Europe, but computer says “yes”, so hopefully we’ll have a date soon.

Following last night’s announcement that Nippon Ichi’s mega-hardcore RPG Disgaea 3 will release in the US for PS3, Koei UK – publisher of all Nippon Ichi titles in Europe – has confirmed there are no plans to bring the title out here as yet. “There’s currently nothing,” said a spokesperson. “I don’t even know if […]